Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Oral history interviews'

Making extensive use of oral interviews with the surviving children, this thesis is an biography of Oscar and Emma Swett and their children, who lived on a homestead in Greendale, Utah, (near Flaming Gorge Reservoir) from 1909 to 1970. The family is representative of a group of families who moved to Greendale and engaged in small-scale cattle ranching. The introduction of new technology changed their lifestyles and homestead economics, while simultaneously Greendale evolved from a rural agricultural environment to become part of a National Recreation Area.

This finding aid of interviews is drawn from the Arnold R. Hirsch Collection at the Amistad Research Center. Between 1987 and 1994, historian Arnold Hirsch interviewed New Orleans’ first black mayor, Ernest Morial, and others related to that crucial era in New Orleans political history. This collection consists of 37 audiocassettes tapes that contain oral history interviews conducted by Arnold Hirsch with various New Orleanians who were active in city government and political activism. This project-based thesis covers the research and construction of the finding aid completed for this collection during an internship at the Amistad Research Center, as well as the metadata collected and created for the collection. This collection and finding aid are being housed at the Amistad Research Center.

This study introduced six African-American female journalists in Indiana and provided an intimate account of their perception of media in regards to African-American female journalists of the 21st century. The women were publicly analyzed with a series of questions and candidly discussed the role of Black female journalists at work, in their personal lives, and their communities in general. The women shared similar responses in regards to four main topics: diversity in media, gender-related challenges, career enjoyment and impact on their communities. The most pressing issue of concern was diversity. All of the women agreed that diversity is ineffectively addressed and provided suggestions. The two research questions concluded (1) none of the women credited any female pioneer in Black journalism to their success and (2) the women did not credit early Black female journalists toward their decision to obtain longevity in journalism.
Department of Journalism

Magister Artium - MA (History)
The aim of this mini-thesis is to interrogate an incident that happened in Lesotho in 1982, where the South African Defence Force (SADF) invaded the capital, Maseru, under the guise of searching for ANC operatives and killed 42 people thirty of whom were South Africans, while the remaining 12 were Basotho citizens. A particular concern is how traumatic events are represented by witnesses, how they remember or, rather talk, about the event, and the secrets and silences which may arise. A lack of literature on this period of Lesotho's history and the Raid itself has necessitated a wider engagement with Raid as it is the first raid that involved the SADF, perpetrated in Lesotho. The first chapter draws out and highlights the complicated relationships between Lesotho and South Africa and their respective main opposition political parties, namely, the Basotho Congress Party and the overall South African liberation movements including the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. This brings me to conclude that the 1982 Maseru Raid and subsequent ones took place on the back of a period that was burdened with gross human rights violations in Lesotho and, this can be argued to explain why the Raid is not particularly spoken about.

The aim of this essay is to study the lives of Bosnian refugees who were forced into fleeing their homeland and integrate into the Swedish culture and society.  During the period of 1992 to 1996, approximately 2.2 million Bosnian citizens were forced to flee to other countries due to the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some of the citizens were internally displaced in nearby regions or border countries. Other refugees sought residence in different parts of the world. The Swedish Migration agency granted residency permits to 50,000 Bosnians between the years of 1993 to 1994.1  In order to accomplish the purpose of the essay, four Bosnian refugees who arrived in Sweden during the 1990s have been interviewed. The four interviewees generated answers which are then compared to previous research in this field. Written history tends to describe people in power as well as warfare in general. Therefore, by using oral history as a method in this study to investigate Bosnian refugees ́experiences, a more significant perspective of how they experienced integration in the Swedish society is more likely to appear. With their experiences and memories that they share with us, one will understand the life of a refugee.  This essay entails a qualitative approach where we conducted semi-structured interviews with Bosnian refugees. The theory we used to analyze the results is an integration model developed by Jose Alberto Diaz who studied integration in Sweden.  As a result, this study shows various factors that affect the individual ́s integration into the Swedish society. For example, the personal integration, housing integration, language skills, meaningful employment and livelihood, social contacts and the treatment of the authorities. These are some of the factors that affect the integration of immigrants.

This practice-led PhD project consists of two parts. The first is an exegesis documenting how a fiction writer can enter a dialogue with the oral history project in Australia. I identify two philosophical mandates of the oral history project in Australia that have shaped my creative practice: an emphasis on the analysis of the interviewee’s subjective experience as a means of understanding the past, and the desire to engage a wide audience in order to promote empathy towards the subject. The discussion around fiction in the oral history project is in its infancy. In order to deepen the debate, I draw on the more mature discussion in ethnographic fiction. I rely on literary theorists Steven Greenblatt, Dorrit Cohn and Gerard Genette to develop a clear understanding of the distinct narrative qualities of fiction, in order to explore how fiction can re-present and explore an interviewee’s subjective experience, and engage a wide readership. I document my own methodology for producing a work of fiction that is enriched by oral history methodology and theory, and responds to the mandates of the project. I demonstrate the means by which fiction and the oral history project can enter a dialogue in the truest sense of the word: a two-way conversation that enriches and augments practice in both fields. The second part of the PhD is a novel, set in Brisbane and based on oral history interviews and archival material I gathered over the course of the project. The novel centres on Brisbane artist Evelyn, who has been given an impossible task: a derelict old house is about to be demolished, and she must capture its history in a sculpture that will be built on the site. Evelyn struggles to come up with ideas and create the sculpture, realising that she has no way to discover who inhabited the house. What follows is a series of stories, each set in a different era in Brisbane’s history, which take the reader backwards through the house’s history. Hidden Objects is a novel about the impossibility of grasping the past and the powerful pull of storytelling. The novel is an experiment in a hybrid form and is accompanied by an appendix that identifies the historically accurate sources informing the fiction. The decisions about the aesthetics of the novel were a direct result of my engagement with the mandates of the oral history project in Australia. The novel was shortlisted in the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards, unpublished manuscript category.

A major concern many counselor trainees face when preparing to see their first couple-client is that of confidence because they have had little to no experience in interacting in a professional capacity with couples. Many beginning counselors experience anxiety, which can inhibit their effectiveness with clients (Scanlon & Baille, 1994). Introducing counselor trainees to a relatively non-threatening interaction with couples might reduce the initial anxiety that characterizes the neophyte counselor venturing into new clinical territory. The interaction may also enhance feelings of warmth and closeness of the couples. John Gottman's Oral History Interview (Gottman, 1999) was the protocol used in the interaction between trainee and couple. An instrument developed for this study to measure couple counseling confidence, the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1983), and the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (Schaefer & Olson, 1981) were used to assess levels of counselor confidence, counselor anxiety, and couple intimacy, respectively. The confidence instrument and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to 37 students who were enrolled in four graduate level introductory couple counseling classes and who interviewed couples, as well as to 34 counselor-trainees who were enrolled in five graduate level counseling courses other than couple counseling and who did not interview couples. Analyses of the quantitative data revealed no statistically significant differences in confidence between trainees who interviewed a couple and trainees who did not interview a couple. Analyses of qualitative data suggested there were differences. The Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships was administered to 67 individual couple participants who were interviewed by counselor trainees, and 35 individual couple participants who were not interviewed by counselor-trainees. Analyses of the quantitative data revealed no statistically significant differences in couples who participated in the Oral History Interview and those who did not. Analyses of qualitative data suggested there were differences. Regarding both counselor confidence and couple intimacy, future research using a larger sample size and more refined quantitative methods appears warranted.

Oral history is a method of preserving historical information through in-depth interviews. Because the process requires narrators to use remote recall while sharing their life experiences, it can also be considered a reminiscence-related activity. Before this study, the positive effects on narrators of providing an oral history were noted in the research literature but had not been evaluated through quantitative methods. Based on theoretical constructs of Erikson and Butler, it was hypothesized that participation in oral history interviews would improve the life satisfaction of narrators. Life satisfaction was operationalized and measured using the Life Satisfaction Index Version A (LSIA). The purposes of this study were to evaluate the influence of an oral history intervention on the life satisfaction of community-dwelling elders and to identify participant characteristics associated with change in life satisfaction scores.Sixty community-dwelling, older adults who were free of cognitive impairment and mental illness were recruited from agencies serving the social and recreational needs of elders in Richmond, VA. Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a control group. LSIA scores were collected pretest, posttest, and again at retest, ten weeks after the intervention. Mean LSIA scores from the control and treatment groups were compared for differences at posttest and retest using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Regression analysis was used to identify participant characteristics associated with improved life satisfaction at posttest and retest. Oral history interviews were conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University students enrolled in a gerontology course. Participants discussed lifetime events with students on three occasions for approximately one hour per session using a researcher-developed interview guide. No statistically significant differences in LSIA scores were found between groups at posttest (p=0.74) or retest (p=0.051) although retest scores may indicate a trend toward improvement. Lower LSIA scores at pretest were associated with positive change in LSIA scores at retest (p=5.001). These results suggest that oral history may not improve life satisfaction immediately but there may be a trend toward improvement given time and that elders least satisfied with their lives at the onset are most likely to show positive change by retest.

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A acupuntura e uma modalidade de tratamento da Medicina Tradicional Chinesa que visa a terapia das doencas e desarmonias pela aplicacao de estimulos em locais anatomicos definidos. O presente estudo objetivou explorar as diversas fases que a acupuntura atravessou ate sua aceitacao no meio medico e insercao no Sistema Unico de Saúde no Municipio de São Paulo, tomando como base as experiencias de vida dos profissionais praticantes desta tecnica. Analisou, atraves das narrativas, como ocorre a mediacao entre a visao da Medicina Tradicional Chinesa e da Medicina Ocidental no espaco publico, bem como o posicionamento dos diferentes praticantes de acupuntura quanto a necessidade da regulamentacao desta pratica no Brasil. Utilizamos a Historia Oral de Vida como metodo, pois tal abordagem metodologica demonstrou ser a mais adequada frente aos objetivos propostos de acessarmos a dimensao das experiencias humanas envolvidas nesta trajetoria de lutas e desafios, possibilitando a construcao de uma historia mais humanizada, que concordou tambem com os objetivos mais amplos desta pesquisa que se insere na linha de pesquisa de Humanidades e Humanizacao em Saúde. A Historia Oral segue um rigoroso conjunto de procedimentos para a constituicao das narrativas, que garantem a etica e a validade das mesmas como documentos a serem analisados. Realizamos dez entrevistas, as quais foram realizadas seguindo o conjunto de procedimentos exigidos pela Historia Oral: gravacao das entrevistas; confeccao do documento escrito: transcricao, textualizacao e transcriacao; conferencia e validacao do documento escrito; analise; devolucao do produto. As informacoes contidas nas narrativas foram analisadas e, posteriormente, tomando como referencial a abordagem de interpretacao denominada imersao/cristalizacao, como sugerida por Borkan (1999), foram estabelecidas as categorias de analise, visando compreender as questoes centrais do trabalho. Os resultados confirmaram nossas expectativas de que a utilizacao da Historia Oral de Vida foi a abordagem mais adequada a este estudo. Atraves das historias de vida dos colaboradores foi possivel observar que: a escolha pela acupuntura esteve intimamente relacionada a crise do modelo medico ocidental; frente a crise da medicina e a emergencia de um novo paradigma na Saúde, a acupuntura vem exercendo um importante papel neste cenario, perpassando sua funcao central e inegavel de proporcionar beneficios a Saúde da populacao; a implementacao e a consolidacao da acupuntura constitui-se um complexo processo que, apesar de ser uma realidade cada vez mais presente, existe ainda um extenso caminho para sua implementacao e consolidacao no Sistema Unico de Saúde. Desta maneira, o interessante e uma proposta de complementaridade entre as praticas ocidentais e orientais, atraves do estabelecimento de um caminho intermediario de saberes e praticas construidas a partir de uma concepcao holistica, nao centralizada na doenca, mas sim no individuo.
Acupuncture is a treatment modality of Traditional Chinese Medicine which aims to therapy of diseases and inharmonies by the application of stimuli in defined anatomical sites. The present study aimed to explore the various stages that acupuncture crossed to its acceptance in the medical and inclusion in the Unified Health System in the Municipality of São Paulo, based on the life experiences of practitioners of this technique. Examined, through the narrative, how is the mediation between the vision of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine in the public space, as well as the positioning of different acupuncture practitioners on the need for regulation of this practice in Brazil. We use the Oral History as a method and this methodological approach proved to be the most appropriate forward the proposed objectives we access the dimension of human experience involved in this path of struggles and challenges, allowing the construction of a more human story, which also agreed with the broader goals of this research that inserts into the search line of Humanities and Health Humanization. Oral History follows a strict set of procedures for the establishment of the narratives, which ensure the ethics and validity of the same as documents to be scanned. We made nine interviews, which were conducted by following a set of procedures required by Oral History: recording interviews, making document written transcript, textualization and trans-creation, conference and validation of the written document analysis; product return. The information contained in the narratives were analyzed, taking as reference the interpretive approach called immersion / crystallization, as suggested by Borkan (1999), were established categories of analysis, to understand the core issues of the work. The results confirmed our expectations that the use of Oral History was the most suitable approach to this study. Through the life stories of acupuncture practitioners was observed that: the choice of acupuncture was closely related to the crisis of Western medical model, with the crisis of the biomedical model and the emergence of a new paradigm in health, acupuncture has been playing an important role in this scenario, passing its core function of providing undeniable benefits to health of the population; the implementation and consolidation of acupuncture is a complex process that, despite being a reality increasingly present, there is still a long way to its implementation and consolidation in Unified Health System. In this way, the interesting proposal is a complementarity between the Western and Eastern practices, through the establishment of an intermediate knowledge and practices built from a holistic approach, not centered on disease, but on the individual.
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This doctoral investigation is a study of the Festival of Perth from its foundation in 1953 until its name changed to the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) in 1999. It charts chronologically the key directors and their contributions to the Festival’s program and management, creating the first single-volume and illustrated account of the Festival of Perth. From a small but visionary concept, the Festival of Perth provided an avenue through which international acts and performances could be brought to Perth audiences. At the same time, the Festival brokered the development and presentation of local work and encouraged the provision of an arts infrastructure in Western Australia. This year-by-year account has been composed from various sources, triangulating and comparing data from archival documents, pre-existing interview transcripts, newly created oral histories, and selected photos and promotional images. A theoretical framework of events management, outlined by Donald Getz, provides a lens through which to see the achievements of the Festival of Perth within the global rise of festival culture. This account and analysis situates the Festival of Perth within accepted definitions of festivals. What started out as a ‘homegrown’ series of events for a small but specific audience of summer school students evolved to become a major international festival, pioneering the ‘big bang’ model for festivals in Australia’s capital cities. To build the context and conclusion, this thesis is structured to reflect the major periods of the Festival’s development and programming under the directorships of Fred Alexander, John Birman and David Blenkinsop, and, in the latter years, the senior administrator Henry Boston. The artistic vision and mission of these four, key personnel was instrumental in the establishment of the Festival in the 1950s, its growth during the 1960s and 1970s, and the development of a successful, modern formula for festivals in the 1980s and 1990s. My reading of the research data emphasises the idiosyncratic and almost haphazard nature of the development of the Festival of Perth. The Festival of Perth was greatly coloured by the differing personalities and programming preferences of each of its four central figures, and the need to respond to differing stakeholder demands. The combination of the key players’ desires to bring the best international acts to Perth, to manufacture and increase arts audiences in Western Australia through targeted cultural events, and their perceived need to improve and educate both the audience and local arts sector, led to a hybrid style of programming which worked in Western Australia for forty-six years. As the first, post-World War II, multi-arts festival in the southern hemisphere, the Festival of Perth can be seen to have initiated the transformation of Perth from cultural desert to internationally desirable performance location. The Festival of Perth quickly became an important institution for the city, state and national community, and continues to be a significant annual event under its new name of the Perth International Arts Festival.

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O objetivo desta dissertação consiste em investigar o processo de construção da identidade profissional de médicos que se dedicam à assistência a pacientes que apresentam doenças progressivas e ameaçadoras da continuidade existencial e que têm contribuído para o desenvolvimento dos Cuidados Paliativos no Brasil. Buscamos conhecer a trajetória profissional destes médicos desde a escolha da medicina como profissão até o encontro com a filosofia e a prática dos Cuidados Paliativos. Com este intuito, realizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas,colhidas segundo a metodologia de História Oral de Vida. Foram entrevistados seis médicos de diferentes especialidades que ocupam cargos diretivos em uma das associações profissionais voltadas para a disseminação e legitimação política e social dos Cuidados Paliativos no Brasil. Os depoentes se destacam no cenário nacional no que diz respeito às discussões sobre esta temática e mantêm contato com importantes instituições internacionais. Por esta razão, chamamos o conjunto de entrevistados de elite médica paliativista. Percebemos uma pobre interlocução entre os médicos paliativistas, o que se reflete na ausência de uma identidade integrada desse grupo profissional. Os entrevistados acentuaram as competências humanitárias necessárias ao bom exercício da Medicina Paliativa, mas, no entanto, não foram explicitadas as competências específicas a este campo profissional, que justificariam seu reconhecimento pelas entidades médicas competentes comouma nova área de atuação ou especialidade.

Based on first-person interviews and lesbian archival documents, this thesis explores the stories of eleven white, middle-class, self-identified lesbians who were born between 1949 and 1960 and who come of age beginning in the 1970s. It traces their life trajectories and examines such themes as the coming out process as it related to family, religion, and other life events; the cultural and political environment that influenced them; their involvement in various forms of lesbian feminist political activism; their varied professional contributions, and their reflections on the future of “the lesbian” as an embodied gendered, sexual, and political identity. In documenting their narratives, my aim is to add their voices and their experiences of struggle, survival, and accomplishment to the Canadian historical canon.
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The purpose of this study was to conduct an oral history of the lived experiences of nine African American doctoral recipients from 1970 to 1980, an era on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the beginning of Affirmative Action in admission policies of Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). This study comprised of six males and three females, who self-identified as African American and received their doctorate degree between 1970 and 1980. Eight of the nine participants’ college of origin was an HBCU, however all of the nine participants graduated with doctorates from PWIs. The data collection methods used for this qualitative study were biographical questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, which utilized semi-structured questions. The data analysis approach was coding categories that aided with sorting the data. Critical race theory (CRT) was used as the theoretical framework for this study. CRT was employed to analyze the lived experiences of these nine participants within American institutions such as K-12 schools, and colleges and universities. The findings revealed that race and racism played a role in the daily decision-making process of the participants, although it did not prevent these nine African Americans from receiving the doctorate degree. This study presented counterstories told by a group of scholars who are depicted as being on the margin of society. It is crucial that the voices of those on the margin of society are included in the history of higher education. These scholars’ stories will contribute to the gap in the literature regarding African American doctoral recipients from 1970 to 1980. This study offers a profound story of the lived experiences of nine African American doctoral recipients during a period of vast social changes in American society.
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Department of Educational Studies

碩士
臺北醫學大學
醫學人文研究所
97
This research program will have oral life history interview with 3 clients, in order to obtain their life courses. Work may be defines as purposeful effort expended to their life long history, including their development history, the reason to contact with substance, the life change before and after their addicts, the abstinence course. We are highly interested in their behavior and intrapsychiatric feelings after receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). We will also emphasize on their treatment in prisons and jails, and their relationship in families and friends. Our central guideline is oral life history, by themselves experience to accumulate the grounded knowledge. The past MMT was highlighted on their effect and benefits to the patient and to society in general. We will explore their experience after the MMT programs. By these quantity and grounded data, we expect to formulate our MMT clinic knowledge and outreach to the clinicians.

碩士
東吳大學
社會工作學系
93
Abstract � As a woman , in my past lifetime , I’ve never been conscious of my gender role . And during my 2-year young social worker life , I lost my passion for work and gradually became a golem lacking of vitality. � According to those conditions , therefore , I developed my research questions . Because oral history interviews provide an invaluable means of connecting personal life stories with social context , and also provide sufficient space and affinity for female narrators to tell their own stories by their terms, the researcher used this method to listen to three senior female social workers’ life stories and tried to hear their female experiences and understand why they can keep devoting themselves to social work and maintain vitality of work. From three female narrators and their female elders’ stories , we could see there existed lots of Ideology , convention and customs which repressed women , especially women of working class in early Taiwan . They suffered from not only patriarchy but also oppresion of politics and economy . But at the same time, we could see women’s strength blossom from those tough situations. In addition, the researcher also found that relationship between mothers and daughters is sweet but mixed with conflict. From their life stories, we could see their growth environment fostered them some characteristics consistent with social workers. We could also see some positive factors facilitating their being on the road of social work. Moreover , what drove them into career as social workers included being fond of accepting challenges, approaching others, understanding themselves . They also expressed social work could broaden their vision . In addition, being willing to accompany people in tough spots , feedbacks from clients , being touched by efforts of clients and willing to transfer kindness for clients were their source of vitality, too. After interacting with three female senior social workers , the researcher had a new vision to view women and social work , and also affirmed women’s strength and the value of social work.

O presente documento constitui um relatório de um Estágio Curricular desenvolvido no Museu Francisco de Lacerda, instituição fundada no Concelho de Calheta, ilha de São Jorge, Açores. O estágio foi realizado entre Outubro de 2020 e Abril de 2021 no âmbito da conclusão do Mestrado em Ciências Musicais, variante em Etnomusicologia, da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. No relatório descrevem-se as tarefas desempenhadas durante o estágio na instituição, com particular destaque para o trabalho de realização de entrevistas a músicos da ilha de São Jorge, destinados ao armazenamento no museu e ao apoio a futura investigação no domínio da música.
This document is a report of a Curricular Internship developed at the Francisco de Lacerda Museum, an institution founded in the municipality of Calheta, São Jorge island, Azores. The internship was held between October 2020 and April 2021 as part of the conclusion of the Master in Musical Sciences, variant in Ethnomusicology, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The report describes the tasks performed during the internship at the institution, with particular emphasis on the work of conducting interviews with musicians from the island of São Jorge, intended for storage in the museum and to support future research in the field of music.

碩士
國立台北護理學院
護理助產研究所
92
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to document five elderly women who started practicing midwifery in Taiwan from 1940s and 1950s. We intend to find out how they entered this profession, how they have been devoted to it for decades, and how they view the current status of midwifery. We hope their life stories will shed insight into the future prospect of this profession. Through extensive audiotaped interviews based on structured guidelines, systematically compile personal life stories for the midwives. Their biographies help us construct the history of midwifery in Taiwan. Midwives’ value and capability as healthcare providers are examined from a historical perspective. This study also demonstrates the contributions of midwives in various aspects of healthcare, including professional autonomy, spontaneous labor, postpartum care, and neonatal care, family-centered nursing. These elderly midwives offered help and saved lives. They made a contribution to the people and at the same time built careers for themselves. Nowadays, their unique skills are forgotten mostly. The hard work they did was hardly appreciated, and their feelings of powerlessness were hardly understood. However, we must maintain the history and the dignity of this profession. We hope young midwives will look upon midwifery as a career, not just a job, and help this profession to grow and prosper. We hope this study will help to promote humanized and demedicalized birth, and help the public recognize the importance of midwives and thereby enhance the dignity and reputation of this profession.

This diploma thesis is working with the method of grounded theory and aims by means of interdisciplinary synthesis contributing to the enrichment of values for researchers practicing the method of oral history, who's become its current representatives. Diploma thesis that is based on the premise that connection of historical sciences and psychologies or practical psychotherapy (which have a certain ethical-moral appeal and have a broader knowledge of the human soul) could be enriching for the practice of oral history. Research of psychological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the practice of oral history is not just a theoretical self-synthesis, but the work is enriched by practical experiences from clinical practice of auxiliary specialists (psychologists and therapists), who were asked about theoretical questions firstly, then about few questions about trauma presence in typical interviews with four narrator. Narrator`s participate in project "Memory of the Nation" and it is possible to assume potential existence of trauma inside them - looking at their life experiences. Uncut version of the material - without proofreading contains the potential inventions of the interviewers. One of the starting point of the work is that part of the population met with trauma (means a strong stressor) in...

This work describes the use of oral history in history classes in elementary schools. It is a combination of history didactics and methodology of oral history. This work should be the instruction for including oral history into the lessons. Its aim is to prove that this method can be used even with children under the age of sixteen years and it is beneficial for them. Work was based on delimitation of oral-historical sources which are primary and secondary. Segmentation is based on the availability of sources to the students, if they can meet witness in person or they are familiar with his memories indirectly. The parts of the work are also two specific suggestions for the projects which use oral history.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 13, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Frisch, Michael Includes bibliographical references.

Main issues of this work are to describe the surrounding of Štefánik observatory and to extend knowledge about its wide history, specially the recent one. Cornerstones of this knowledge have become from interviews with the employees, who worked on Štefánik observatory during the normalization, possibly earlier; and some of them are still work there. The leading of the interviews was made by method of oral history. The work is based also on available bibliography, which concerns mostly to methodology; newspaper articles which relate to observatory history or important events. The text is primarily focused on interviews experiences and feelings and besides the work presents their testimony. In the text are worked up some topics, which concern to professional activity, relationships, perceptions of ages 1968 and 1989, and finally the projection the movies about Apollo programme. The goal of this work is not come to clear conclusions but to reflect experiences of interviewees into historical context, alternatively take a look into working life of Štefánik observatory employees. Keywords: Štefánik observatory, guide, astronomy, normalization, oral history, interview

China and India claimed two territories along their borders on the Himalayas: Aksai Chin in the west and the North-East Frontier Agency in the east. The border dispute escalated and, on October 20, 1962, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) opened fire on the two fronts and advanced into the disputed territories. One month later, on November 21, China declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew behind its disputed line of control. In response, the Indian government arrested over 2,000 Chinese living in India and interned them in Deoli, Rajasthan. When the Chinese were released between 1964 and 1966, they found their properties sold off by the Indian government. Many left India and immigrated to Canada. I interviewed four Indian-born Chinese who were interned and who now live in the Greater Toronto Area. I recorded their accounts of life in Deoli Detention Camp in Rajasthan.

This research discusses communication and meaning in the context of orality, using a variety of theoretical perspectives, including memory theory, media and communication theory, and semiotics. Drawing on the work of Walter Ong, it provides new insight about the characteristics and limits of oralnarration by assessing the memes, tropes, and phraseological units in the oral narrations of Armenian Genocide survivors. This research identifies a list of replicable forms of stories and oral devices that are used by the group in question; it then proposes that oral narration of non-fictional topics designed to convey historical or episodic information to others is intuitive, reactive, directed, fuzzy, and sticky. Concerns about the legitimacy and historical value of the narrations under review do not play a role in this research; instead, the focal point is the meaning embedded in the form and structure of the narrations under study.

The thesis titled Self-reflection Of Czech Sport Journalists Working Between 1980 And 1999 In Printed Media And The Influence Of Ideology On Their Role In Society focuses on a question of whether the work of writing sport journalists was influenced by the ruling ideology before 1989. The thesis is based on biographical interviews of five sport journalists, which were taken while using the help of oral history research method. The sport journalists bring their testimonies, memories, experiences and stories associated with the period of normalization, the Velvet Revolution and the post-revolutionary period. The biggest emphasis is placed on a degree of impact of the ruling ideology on the editorial process before 1989. Therefore the thesis touches themes of self-censorship, targeted campaigns, relationships of the journalists to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia or to The National Security. The work brings views of still writing sport journalists, who evaluate their motivation to do the profession, their ongoing journalistic career and the role of sport journalists in society. This study is a contribution to oral-historical research on the period of normalization and to understanding the influence of ideology on the media activity before 1989. This thesis extends the knowledge of sports...

Wie werden Normen, Vorstellungen und Praktiken in Bezug auf gleichgeschlechtliche L(i)eben im Postnationalsozialismus tradiert, gleichgeschlechtlich L(i)ebende gesellschaftlich verortet und wie agieren sie selbst? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten gilt es, den Blick auf die Selbstbestimmung gleichgeschlechtlich L(i)ebender, ihre Ressourcen und Handlungsfähigkeiten zu richten. Jeanette Hilger untersucht in ihrer Masterarbeit anhand von drei biografisch-narrativen Interviews, inwieweit sich die Erinnerungen zwischen (Un-) Sichtbarkeit und Agency unter den gesetzlichen Normen und den sozialen Praktiken des Postnationalsozialismus von den 1950er Jahren bis heute bewegen und die Biografieträger_innen als selbstbestimmte Akteur_innen darin agieren. In der Arbeit werden schließlich fünf Perspektiven für die historisch-politische Bildung auf das Lernen aus der Auseinandersetzung mit L(i)ebensgeschichten eruiert, die die pädagogische Vermittlung der Vielfalt von L(i)ebensweisen marginalisierter Personengruppen in einer heterogenen Gesellschaft unterstützen.:I. Forschungsvorhaben 1. Motivation und Erkenntnisinteresse 2. Forschungsstand II. Theoretische Grundlagen 1. Historische Einbettung: tradierte Normen im Postnationalsozialismus 2. Zeitzeugnis und Erinnerung: Begriffsklärung und pädagogisches Verständnis 3. Agency und Salutogenese: Handlungsfähigkeit gleichgeschlechtlich L(i)ebender III. Methodischer Zugang und Datengenerierung 1. Formale Theorie und Methodologie 2. Erhebung 2.1 Erhebungsmethodik 2.1.1 Biografisch-narratives Interview 2.1.2 Oral history 2.2 Erhebungsdurchführung 2.2.1 Zugänge und Sampling 2.2.2 Leitfaden 3. Auswertung 3.1 Transkription 3.2 Dokumentarische Auswertungsmethode IV. Analyse 1. Interviewbearbeitung und Fallanalysen 1.1 Vorstellung und Analyse von Frau Renzow: „und ich war nich so ich wollte keen freund ham ich fands schön so wies war“ (I1: 2/Z 148/149) 1.1.1 Biografie und Gespräche 1.1.2 Das Andere und das Abweichende als Normalität 1.2 Vorstellung und Analyse von Herrn Rauh: „immer wieder das erst verstecken, das vorsichtig sein, abducken, aber immer wieder weitergehen, immer wieder nich stehen bleiben sondern […] doch weiterzumachen.“ (I2: Teil 2/58:40 Min.) 1.2.1 Biografie und Gespräche 1.2.2 Nach Anpassung und Unterdrücken zu Selbstwertschätzung 1.3 Vorstellung und Analyse von Herrn Kuhn: „liebe was is liebe un=un=un wie tust de liebe ausdrückn (_) […] ja wie lieb ich dich“ (I3: 2/Z 23-25) 1.3.1 Biografie und Gespräche 1.3.2 Das Sichere und Rationale des Eigenen, das Unsichere und Irrationale des Äußeren 2. Interviewauswertung und Ergebnisdarstellung 2.1 Auswertung und Interpretation: Vergleiche… 2.1.1 … der Biografien: „es gab zeiten, da hatte ich nicht mehr in meinen taschen als meine hände. doch die muss man herausholen und etwas anpacken, damit etwas wird.“ (Vorgespräch, I2) 2.1.2 … auf persönlich-individueller Ebene: Erleben der und Umgang mit gleichgeschlechtlichen L(i)eben 2.1.3 … auf gesellschaftlicher und familiärer Ebene: Vorstellungen von und Umgang mit Geschlecht, Liebe und (Homo-)Sexualität_en 2.1.4 … der Orientierungen: „ich hab mein lebn selbst in de hand genomm denn vorher wurde ich eh dirigiert […] und hab das gemacht was die gesellschaft von mir erwartet oder wie was […] angeblich vorgezeichnet war“ (I3: 4/Z 39-42) 2.2 Theoretische Einbettung der empirischen Ergebnisse zu Biografien der Lieben, Lügen und Leben 2.2.1 Zusammenfassung der Analyseergebnisse 2.2.2 Agency und Salutogenese: Schlussfolgerungen V. Fazit und Aussicht

The aim of the Master thesis was to introduce the looking for bilingual people (Czech and German people), who are living in the Czech-Bavaria border region. After discovery of bilingual people was very important record the life story of selected respondents in Bavaria and South Bohemia. Life stories of the respondents should include of the concept bilingualism. This thesis is based on the sociological methods, method of the oral history and monitoring life stories of people, who can be forgotten in the future.